PSC 151 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Personality Psychology, Fundamental Attribution Error
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How thoughts, feelings, & behaviors are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people. Statement: 9 out of 10 us olympians grew up drinking milk. Based on 675 survey responses sent to us olympians. Ad implication: drinking milk can make you physically stronger and will lead you to be successful. Can lead you to be in the olympics. Don"t know how much milk the person drank. Influenced by what you thinking others will think about you. Norms for how to sit in class. Social psychology not as focused on disorders like clinical psychology. Social psychology focused in influences by others (people/situations ) & personality psychology focuses on the individual. The tendency to overestimate the extent to which people"s behavior is due to internal, dispositional factors and to underestimate the role of situational factors. People tend to think more like personality psychologists than like social. Ex: not wearing helmet in davis psychologists.
